Head of a Woman Looking Back Over Her Shoulder

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Artist, French, 1725 - 1805

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 43.2 x 29.3 cm (17 x 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1981.50.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Catherine II, empress of Russia [1729-1796]; Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (L.2699a); State Hermitage Museum; (sale, Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, 4 May 1932, no. 50); Ferrers, London; Robert Abdy, 1962; Mrs. M. Fitzwilliam, until 1980; (sale, London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 9 December 1980, no. 168, ill.); Adolphe Stein; purchased by the National Gallery, 1981.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 1983.

Bibliography

1959

  • Stein, 7/6-7/18/81, 73.

2009

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 170, fig. 2 (color).

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and dark brown ink: 8-No 66. (inventory number of Catherine the Great of Russia)

Watermarks

Wikidata ID

Q64581123


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